Coin-assorting device.



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(Application filed June 30, 1898.)

(No Modal.)

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JASON G. FRANCE, OF SYRACUSE, NEW YORK, ASSIGNOR OF ONE-HALF TO JAMES R. PEARSALL, OF SAME PLACE,

COIN-ASSORTING DEVICE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 657,902, dated September 11, 1900.

Application filed Tune 30, 1898. Serial No. 684,781. (No model.)

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Be it known that I, JASON G. FRANCE, of Syracuse, in the county of Onondaga, in the State of New York, have invented new and useful Improvements in Coin-Assorting Devices, of which the following, taken in connection with the accompanying drawings, is a full, clear, and exact description.

My invention has forits object the production of a coin-assorting device which is simple in construction and highly eifective in operation; and to this end it consists in the combination, construction, and arrangement of the component parts 'of a coin-asserting device, as hereinafter fully described, and pointed out in the claim.

In describing this invention reference is had to the accompanying drawings, forming part of this specification, in which like letters indicate corresponding parts in all the views.

Figure lis a front elevation of my improved coin-asserting device. Figs. 2, 3, and 4 are sectional views taken, respectively, on lines 2 2 and 3 3, Fig. 1, and 4 4, Fig. 2.

My improved coin-asserting device preferably consists of an assorting-guide A, feeding and receiving guides B C, and pockets D. The asserting-guide A is generally provided with inlet and outlet openings a ct' a2 d3 d'l and downwardly-inclined side and bottom walls a5 a6 di. The inlet-opening a is of any suitable size, is usually provided in the upper end of the guideAin advance of the outlet-openings a a2 a3 d4, and preferably com municates with the lower end of the feedingguide B. The outlet-openings a' d2 a3 of* are arranged one in advance of the other in the path of the coin admitted into the guide A through the inlet-opening a, are generally formed in the side wall d5 of said guide, and are preferably of unequal area, being usually increased successively in width and height toward the lower end of the guide A. The side wall d5 of the guide A generally inclines downwardly toward one of its ends and its lower longitudinal side and is preferably united at its upper longitudinal side to a substantially-upright wall A', which supports the guide A and forms parts of the guides B C. The side wall a6 of the guide A is substantially parallel with the wall a5, and the bottom wallo.7 of said guide unites the lower edges of the walls a5 a and is generally arranged at substantially right angles therewit-h, being also inclined downwardly to- -ward one end and one longitudinal side.

The feeding-guide B preferably extends upwardly from the inlet-opening ct of the assorting-guide A and is of any suitable form and size. It is obvious, however, that said feeding-guide may be dispensed with, if desired, and the coin inserted directly into the inletopening a. The receiving-guides C are usually inclosed by the wall A', an opposite wall cextending downwardly from the bottom wall a7 of the guide A, and substantially parallel partitions c' interposed between the adjacent faces of the walls A' c and having their upper ends aliued with the spaces between the openings d' d2 a3 a4. The pockets D are alined with the receiving-guides C and are generally formed in a drawer d, which is arranged beneath a lateral extension c2 of the wall c, is movable in a guide 01,8, projecting laterally from the lower end of the wall A' beneath the extension o2, and is provided with partitions d', alined with the partitions c'. Said pocketsD may, however, be otherwise constructed, if desired.

In the operation of my invention a number of coins of different size are inserted one by one within the feedingguide B and pass through the inlet-opening a into the guide A, whence they emerge through corresponding outlet-openings of said guide and fall downwardly into the receiving-guides C and the pockets D.

The construction and operation of my improved eoin assorting device will now be readily understood upon reference t0 the foregoing description-and the accompanying drawings.

Having thus fully described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is I In a coin-assorting device, the combination of a suhstantially-upright wall A', a wall co5 inclining downwardly toward one end and one longitudinal side and having its other longitudinal side united to the wall A', said wall d5 being provided with a series of openings a' a2 a3 a4 of unequal area, a wall a ar- IOO ranged substantiallyparallel with the Wall a5, a wall a7 uniting the lower longitudinal sides of the walls a5 as, a wall c extending from the Wall a7 and arranged opposite to the 5 Wall A and provided with a lateral extension c2, a plurality of partitions c arranged be,- l neath the Wall a7 and above the extension c? and between the walls A c and having their .upper ends alined with the spaces between 1c the openings a a2 a3 0,4, a guide as projecting lateral-ly from the lower end of the Wall A beneath the extension c?, and a drawer d movable in the guide a8 beneath the extension c? and provided with partitions d alined with the partitions c, substantially as and l5 for the purpose described.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto signed my name, in the presence of two attesting Witnesses, at Syracuse, in the county of Onondaga, in the State of New York, this 28th 2o day of May, 1898.

JASON G. FRANCE. 

